Olympic Closing Ceremonies - Dinner Plus Drinks #85

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Hello, everybody! Welcome! Uh, this is, I mean, geez. Really caught me off guard there. Jeez Louise, my goodness, Kripes, Cry Money. Oh boy. Whoa, Nelly, hold your horses. This is gonna be the most exciting episode of Dinner Plus Drinks podcast ever. Because this is the final week. Final countdown to note who wins the Dinner Plus Drinks Olympics. We have Shannon representing Team Ireland. Hello, hello. And Bridget representing Team Greece. Greece!

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Did you forget my name? I feel like you forgot my name there. Uh I almost said Britney. Close, close. This is gonna release on the day of the closing ceremonies of the actual Olympics. So just saying we planned it perfectly. Shocking.

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Shocking. We love a good plan. So here's what we got lined up for you today. We have two more events. Going into this week's episode, after our previous events, we are tied. We had have had six events so far. Greece took the food, Ireland took the drinking, Ireland took uh ping pong ball bouncing, kind of beer pong. Uh again, surprise, Ireland. Uh penny stacking, Ireland took. Eminem moving, Greece took. By the way, penny stacking was a little bit of a controversial decision.

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I was like, Oh, I won that. Not a technicality cleaner.

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Uh Greece cheated. Yeah. Uh and the team of champions voting.

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Stating I couldn't get in the way.

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Greece won that. So it's three to three. We have two events and a possible tiebreaker to see, you know, who could win. Oh boy. But first, um, you guys talk about your so I'm gonna make a drink. I'm calling this drink the Bridget. Oh, okay. Because it is uh I can't decide. I was a little unprepared today. You're just not unprepared, but then I couldn't decide what to do. So I have all three types of alcohol plus fruit for this. Great. So when you can't decide on what you want, call it a bridget. We have wine, liquor, and beer. So this is gonna be a very summary cocktail. It's gonna have a little bit of ice in each thing. I'm just making this. We did something like this previously.

SPEAKER_03 2:14

Okay, well, Nick is making this up. I have to say something that I threw in here at the last minute because it's been bothering me. Not enough to look it up until today, but what is with the masks that Team USA is wearing on the metal side? Oh, yeah, don't love it. And I'm sure there was a reason, and I'm like, oh yeah, I'm sure it's gotta be extra protection, something. I don't know. But no, my friends at NPR, my pals, looked into it. Are you a supporter? Um, yes, of NPR recently, actually. Good job. Because I'm an adult now. Yes. I was gonna say, what gear did you get? Um, yes, the tote bag, because then we know every good millennial loves loves a tote bag.

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Um, okay, but anyway, so I'm now adding about three ounces of white wine, Chardonnay.

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I like the cocktail commentary over here. So um built into it, the masks are made by Nike. They are not extra protective or anything, they're mostly a fashion statement, but the pleats are meant to evoke the folds of Japanese origami. Wow. So a little bit of a letdown in my answer, I think, there, but thank you, Nike, I suppose, for being thoughtful on that one. So, in case you were also curious what the Space Age masks were all about, now you know. The origami masks.

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A splas of shamboard?

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No.

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We once had a Japanese exchange student when we were growing up, and she is the one that taught us how to fold origami. Yeah, do you remember how to do any of it? Uh, I can make a cup, I'll gotta all we can make. I'll do that. And but she actually also used ramen noodles, like out of a packet, ramen noodles. But why are you interrupting our origami discussion?

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First, we're adding a splash of this beer from Revolution called Freedom of Assembly, which is a blueberry and ginger salad. So we're gonna add a little bit of uh carbonation, just a touch of shh tartness to go with everything. Oh my god. Which is why we have the blueberry garnish. And then a blueberry garnish.

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Wow.

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So we're gonna add in some some fresh blueberries.

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I'm sorry. I was back on the on the ramen noodle discussion still, but there you have it.

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Uh Bridget, when you can't decide, have it all, folks.

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I really like that.

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This feels hefty.

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It feels it for for you, if you can't see it, it looks like it's just of like liquor on the rocks.

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Basically, very little liquor in it. Right. Some blueberry snacks, too.

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Yeah, you don't want to drink on an empty stomach. So here's some blueberries, everybody.

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Well, cheers.

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Closing ceremony, great games, everybody. Oh, refreshing. Oh, very refreshing. The exact refreshing comment I was gonna make. Well, it's very brilliant. It's delicious. It's great. Good job, Nick.

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See, you can come up with crap out of your butt too when you realize you forgot the sparkling wine that was supposed to toast the end of this. I'm sorry, everybody.

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Next time. But it's delicious. It is delicious. Cheers. Okay, guys, great job. I um, as we are cheersing, I think that's a word, our Olympics here on Dinner Plus Drinks. I wanted to reflect on some of our favorite stories from the Olympics. Yes. Which I'm forcing these fools next to me to do because you know I love a good story from the Olympics, as you heard on Amose Boosh to last week.

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You're not listening to Amose Boosh. You are missing out. And they made fun of it. You know, we thought it was we had a listener, uh, Jill, shout out. Thanks for for the positive feedback. Talk to Bridget about how much she enjoyed it. And it's just nice to hear. So thank you, Jill, for that.

SPEAKER_03 5:42

Jill listened to my Love Letter to Milwaukee episode and was crying. And I know Jill well, so you know, I these aren't strangers that are just, you know, loving my voice. But she was driving through Milwaukee. Yeah, she was listening to it, and it was really awesome feedback. So I appreciate that, Jill. That's adorable. Yeah, it was great. Love that city. Oh, we have like 12 stories for the city. I only dropped. Yeah, you can't choose. So you two didn't make fun of me. Make a cocktail. Okay, so what I want to talk about is not actually something that happened during um a sporting event, uh, but it was a Ghanaian Olympic track um track and field team. So they got back to the Olympic Village, and there's a, of course, video and photo and all sorts of things on social media of them dancing back to their hotel after practice. And one of the triple jumpers said, quote, I love to share my joy of dancing with everyone. Given how tense and intense the Olympic Games village has been, I wanted to spread that joy with other athletes to remind us why we're really here, which is really awesome. And kind of coordinates what I was with what I was talking about on Amose Bush this week. So they're really there to have some fun, also, which was really cool to see. So I loved that story. I hope that made its way around the web. Was it on Reddit, Nick? Was it on Reddit? I don't know. I didn't see that one.

SPEAKER_05 6:56

I think the triple jumpers have to be like incredible dancers, though, right? Because like the triple jump is like you basically dance and then jump.

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That's a good point. Yeah, they were good dancers, man. And the the like still shot looked like the Beatles album, you know, like in a crosswalk.

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It was cute. So anyway. How did so how did we come up with a triple jump as an event? Like, you know, like I get I'm falling, I'm falling, now I'm gonna jump. Also, like the first person to do the high jump, like, I'm gonna or the pole vault. Like, I'm gonna take this pole and hurl my like who's how many people died in the invention of that sport?

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And surprisingly, there's a story about that. Oh no, that it was about the high jump, not the pole vault. Yeah. About how they came up with the flap. Like it's the guy's name.

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Yeah, but I thought he was gonna like everybody's like, you're gonna maralyze yourself. Yeah. Yeah.

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And that's how everyone jumps now. It's a strange sport. I mean, there I did discover some new sports in this Olympics, like this speed race canoeing or whatever that was. Or walking.

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I knew that was an Olympic sport, oddly enough.

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Urban climbing, is that what they call it? Like it's like spelunk, spelunk. They have uh they have parkour now, too, basically, but they don't call it parkour.

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Well, someone just told me they're not sure.

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I don't understand how that's an Olympic sport.

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I mean, it's antisocial behavior. I feel like that's a sport. I'm just saying. I can't do it. If I can't do it, I feel like it can be anything. I mean, I can't do darts. Is that the bar? It's not a sport. I feel like it should be a sport. I don't know if darts are. I feel like you used to say it's only a sport if you break a sweat. Oh, I probably did used to say that. I mean, parkour. Could you probably break a sweat playing darts? You mind if you're like really focused? Yeah. You're definitely breaking a sweat doing parkours.

SPEAKER_05 8:23

Therefore, NASCAR is definitely a sport too.

SPEAKER_03 8:25

Yeah, it's hot in those cars, I bet. It's a weird, that's a probably not an appropriate like descriptor of what a sports.

SPEAKER_05 8:31

You know what? NASCAR should be an Olympic event. Oh, I don't know. Demo Derby. Could you imagine like how America would win, right?

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It's like a county fair Olympic sport.

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Although Canada, Canada would be a really strong contender. There's like some guy from Saskatoon.

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Oh, sorry. Sorry, eh? Sorry.

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As he's taking people out.

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Because we should probably be on the IOC. We should.

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We'd get massive bribes too. It'd be great. I can't imagine why they wouldn't want us. Don't you have to speak like a minimum of seven languages? I think there are some high qualifications. Yeah. Don't care. Don't do it.

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Don't care.

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You could probably put this on your resume though. Cocktail mixing.

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Yes, I will come and make cocktails from whatever.

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I hear that's what they're in need of for.

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Strong improvisational skills. You know, for when we're hiring, we always look for the you know soft skills. Huh. Like improvisation, ability to think on your feet.

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All right. Cocktail making.

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Great.

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You should add this to your list of interview questions. Well. If I gave you these five ingredients, what cocktail would you make? What would you do?

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I'm 18, so I can't drink. Oh, that's Hey, that would be them being honest, okay? All right, Shannon, tell us about your favorite moment.

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Oh, it will not come as a surprise to anyone that knows me. That one of my favorite stories this year was the Alice and Felix, the whole story with her and her sort of comeback after motherhood. Her, she's the most decorated women's track athlete of all time, I believe. Yep. And she um started her own brand after separating with Nike over the way that she was treated um as a pregnant mother and during maternity leave and all those types, not maternity leave, but trying to come back. During that experience, yeah. And so she um ended up coming back to her Sixth Olympics, running her fastest time since before she had a baby. And at age 35, it's the fastest time at that age that anyone has run. And so she's just this like epic athlete and mother. And so the whole storyline was about her kid. And um, I just think it's an awesome storyline.

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This is very Shannon.

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It is, and it's very like on trend for what the world's doing right now. Like, it's very cool to see that moms are like, Yeah, I can be an Olympic athlete. And also, I mean, she had a C-section and was going through recovery from that, and like to be able to train for the Olympics then after that is amazing.

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Yeah, so I love that storyline.

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That is a good one. Congratulations, Allison Felix. Really cool.

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This is what the Olympics are about, you guys. Yeah, stories that pull on your heart.

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No?

SPEAKER_05 10:46

Pulling on my heart is a story about the our dear friends, the Aussies. Aussi, Aussi, Aussies. Uh they trashed the Olympic village. They did really they uh they was there was vomit in places there shouldn't be vomit. Oh they collapsed the beds. Well, they were made of the batteries. They had a party, they stole some of the decorations that then ended, like they had a kanga that was a decoration, and uh somehow it ended up in Germany, and in typical Aussie humor fashion, the uh there people are like, it wasn't anything like super destructive, just like left over from a rager, basically.

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Rugby and rowing teams, yeah.

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The headline. Could you read the headline, please, Bridget?

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Australia's rugby teams.

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Australia.

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Australia Australia's rugby and rowing teams went on a drunken rampage through the Olympic village before departing Tokyo. Oh, I like the second. The rowdy night out involved holes in walls and a life-size emu and kangaroo going missing for a period of time.

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Yeah, evidently it went over to Germany. The their federation's like, it took a conjugal visit, like Aussie humor. Um, if I was in the Olympics, you know, go in the like, this is what the Olympics are about, having fun. I would definitely go meet some Aussies and be like, oi, let's party, mate.

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Oh, wow. And I think they'd take you right in.

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I think they would. If I had to leave America, I would I would try and go to Australia. I mean, first I'd go to New Zealand. Jacinda, we love you.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Australia.

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But I think particularly with the Rugby team, that might be the reason. Yeah. It was like, let's be clear that many of the uh athletes from Australia have not vomited in places that they should be.

SPEAKER_05 12:21

I bet the swimmers have.

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I don't know. We're these all men. That coach, maybe. Oh my gosh. Okay. I can go on and aisle, guys.

SPEAKER_05 12:31

You guys want to just put a bow tie on?

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Are you gonna make fun of me if I just keep going through all these stories?

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I mean, one more.

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I you got uh you're calling me on the spot here. I gotta find it. You got notes about the library? You got notes about the phone. These are all my notes. Get out of here. This is our beer menu from the other night. I don't know where it is, you guys. I had notes about the Olympics. I stopped taking them because you did you delete them in shame when we made fun of them? Probably. Okay, I don't know where they are. Sorry, everybody. Well, all right. Watch the news, everyone. Yeah, watch the news, breaking news.

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We're getting to our first event of today. Uh-oh. And this is um this is nothing in having to do with Bridget and Shannon's skill, but the skill of the actual athletes representing Greece and Ireland. This is the real medal count. So this is Friday. It's unlikely either team will win any more medals. I would I would say yep. Um, so if they do, I will edit this and cut in and and you know, whatever. But um you probably probably won't. So it's not gonna happen. We we look this up, and the medals are tied three to three. Oh my god. But but Greece has two gold medals and a bronze medal, and Ireland has one gold medal and two bronze medals. Oh man, really sorry. There we go. Greece wins this event and pulls ahead four to three in the standings. That means Ireland must win the next event to force a tiebreaker, otherwise, Greece wins a dinner plus drink. I think I'm just gonna go hang out with my Australian mates. Guys, this is Nick. You will not guess what happened. We had a change in the metal count. First, Greece managed to get to the finals of water polo. Water polo, of all things. I mean, I didn't know they were good at water polo. It makes sense because they have a lot of islands in Greece. Stay tuned for that. But they ended up losing 10 to 13 to Serbia, and it was the first silver Olympic medal in the history of Greece, evidently. So that was very cool for them. So Greece pulled ahead, no need to do a tiebreaker. But then Kelly Harrington of Ireland became just the third female ever in Irish history to win Olympic gold. She won Olympic gold in the women's boxing lightweight competition. Unbelievable! She belled she beat silver medalist Beatriz Yasmin Suarez Ferreira of Brazil, and that puts them back even. This screws everything up. So we have to look at the composition of the medals. We're tied at Ford each. Both Greece and Ireland have two gold medals, but Greece has one silver and one bronze. Ireland has just two bronzes. I shouldn't say just two bronzes, because that's still an incredible accomplishment, but that keeps Greece ahead, and it means our event still goes to Greece. We're on track. We we jinxed ourselves with this, but luckily all's well, that ends well. Congratulations to all the medalists from Greece and Ireland. Okay, back to our Friday recording, not our Sunday morning recording.

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Can I ask a question? I should know the answer to. Our second gold medal, it's in rowing, and the second sport is athletics. Oh, what is that? It says men's long jump. Yeah. Athletics.

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So like the running and the jumping and the things like that throwing.

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Isn't that isn't that field of the track and field?

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Yeah, I think they call that jump.

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Go back to the chart. It said long jump right there. Yeah, I'm curious about the thing. The sport is athletics. The event is men's long jump. Alright, everybody. So that would be the single skulls, long jump, and rings.

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Oh, did you guys see the American dude that broke the world record won gold for uh the the throw shot put? Shotput. That guy, they should have had him on Game of Thrones. Because he was like, I think he put a let's effing go out as he threw the thing. Oh my gosh. Wouldn't you? What else do you think? Also, like those guys are bros.

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It was pretty cool. Even some of the women that I was watching, that that stuff doesn't get covered, so it's just like quick highlights. I'm like, holy shit.

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But those guys were intense, they were into it. The talent like looks like they're gonna poop themselves every time they throw it.

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It's nothing lazy.

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I mean, that's like Giannis, you know, said uh he got so excited he pooped himself the one time.

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I mean, he's in Greece with his actual bros.

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I did not know that. In one of the playoff games, he like did like this dunk is he's like, yeah, I pooped myself a little bit.

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I love him. All right, it's probably all that Chick-fil-A. It's probably all those nuggets.

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Before we get to the last um last event, Bridget has something she'd like to share with all of you. I do. Yeah, it says you have a thing here.

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Oh, my product recommendation? Yeah. Sorry. Yeah, I got, I'm really not paying attention, everybody. Um this is just a brief product recommendation from your friend Bridget. So I was reading an article. I was a jerk, and I was like, what is with these ridiculous bouquets at the Olympics? Like, why do they hold these flowers that are so crazy? Well, of course, they're very deep and meaningful to the culture and the host country. So are they chrysanthemums? That is great. They are not. Um, but they all have the lucky cat on it. Um yeah. So we'll put it, we'll put a link to the article so you all can read about them. But if you are local to the Lake Geneva area, andor you would just like to come to the area to visit, say hello. We have a lovely little stand called Pipsi Pop Flowers, and they would be my Olympic bouquet of choice. They are inexpensive. We know the woman that puts them out, and they are beautiful wildflower bouquets, and or you could buy sunflowers by this individual stem, or you could mix them all together if you want, which is what I like to do. And that is my product recommendation. So come on down to Lake Geneva, swing by Pipsi Pop Flowers, and get a really inexpensive, beautiful flower bouquet for your own metal stand.

SPEAKER_05 18:46

I thought if it was in Wisconsin, the dandelion would be the bouquet.

SPEAKER_03 18:50

Nick is having dandelions and mosquitoes.

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Or some invasive speech. That's all we have. That's all we have. All right, it is time for the final event. And this is Olympic trivia. Remember, I hate trivia. Going into this event, Ireland must win to tie and force a final event.

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You've never had to do trivia with Nick.

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Okay, so this is multiple choice, four questions relating to your countries. The first one, uh, Ireland, you since you're behind, you get the choice of where you go first or last. No Googling, Bridget. What? No Googling. Ireland. I am gonna go last. All right. Yeah. Bridget, how many people live in Greece? 3.4 million, 10.7 million, or 14.8 million?

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I don't have a fucking clue. Three A. Answer A. That is incorrect. It is 10.7 million people. Go with my gut.

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Shannon.

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Shannon. Same question.

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How many people live in Ireland? 4.9 million, 6.7 million, or 7.2 million.

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I think that it's 4.9. That is correct! Oh, dang.

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One point for Ireland.

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All right.

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Next, we're gonna talk about agricultural products. Oh crap. The potato. Brewpoint, Ireland. How many, how many tons of olives does Greece grow? 50,000 tons? 250,000 tons, or 300,000 tons?

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Yeah, 300. 300, you got it! Obviously, I knew that. Like your great, great grandfathers in the industry.

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Danny, can you guess how many people what I'm gonna ask you about?

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How many potatoes? I'm guessing potatoes.

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Potatoes. How many tons of potatoes does Ireland grow? 132,000 tons, 412,400 tons, 1,832,000 tons.

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Is this a like we think that it's all potato all the time, but it's really not? Ooh, who knows? Could be a tricky.

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Um, I'm gonna go with B.

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You're correct!

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412,400 t.

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As I was Googling this, all the Irish potato facts are talking about how unfortunately their potatoes are no longer.

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We did go through a famine. Yeah. All right. That one was.

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Next, we're bringing it back to your team of champions. Bridget, what is Tina Faye's net worth? Oh 35 million, 48 million, or 75 million? 48. That is incorrect. It is 48. I'm sorry, it's 75. It is 75 million.

SPEAKER_03 21:23

Wow, Tina Faye. Books. Did she make a lot of money on books?

SPEAKER_05 21:27

Pierce Brosnan net worth for Ireland. 75 million, 200 million, or 315 million.

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Do you like how the lowest one for the man starts at the highest one?

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I mean, James Bond, and yes, that is not right.

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Yeah. I got distracted. So then.

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75 million, 200 million, 315 million.

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75.

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That's incorrect. 200 million. Yeah. All right, Bridget, you need to get this right.

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Oh shit.

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How many islands does Ireland possess?

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Ooh.

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Three? Ireland? Eight. Or 3,000. Not counting the actual island, you know. Ireland. But other off-the-shore islands that are part of Ireland. Three. That is incorrect. Ireland has 80 islands. 80 islands? 80 islands. I guess we need a trip. So this is a dead rubber one now, but let's see how far you can go. This is like when you know you won it, and your last go at an event is just to win.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

Was she supposed to have an Irish question?

SPEAKER_03 22:27

You just asked me how many islands Ireland had.

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Yeah.

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Oh, okay.

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Oh, I meant Greece, but that's the price. That's the correct one. Now, how many I wrote this, I wrote this the wrong way.

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Oh, okay. BS.

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How many islands does Greece have? 3,127, 6,000, or 12,000?

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The first one. A. 3,000. 6,000.

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I got that wrong, but whatever.

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Ireland gets the point.

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Ireland wins, so we are tied. We are tied, so we go into sudden death. We know you all wanted to see it anyway. I want to know what it is. So you have a choice. Much like the high jumpers tied and decided to share the gold medal. You can choose to share the gold medal. Or we can do the final event.

SPEAKER_02 23:15

The final neither of our countries have a silver medal, so I think we need to do the final event and let someone have a silver medal.

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What we're saying is Shannon's a really bad loser. 50-50 chance that I would have chosen sportsmanship, of course. No, you wouldn't. But I guess we'll be competing. Don't give the people what they want. They want to see. Can we set MMs with a straw again? Because I was good at that one. Can we roll a thing off the table and see who gets there first? Which one of our rolled items? Yep. I mean we could share. Do you want to share? Minute to win it. Do we need a minute to win it game now?

SPEAKER_05 23:52

Nope, I got it. Okay. Um I am texting you, Shannon. Oh. Okay. This event is singing your national anthem. And I'm gonna let you sing it in English or Irish, whichever you would like. Uh we only have to do the first stanza. So do you want to share the gold medal? Too late. You decided. You can come up with with with uh with your your own things. The Irish one is called, and I, in my sole judgment, I will give you points for not necessarily the beauty of it, but the uh uh gusto with which you sing it. Um so the Irish anthraim is called Hamram non Bhapan in Irish, which I don't understand. But it's actually called uh the soldier song.

SPEAKER_01 24:44

Oh, great.

SPEAKER_05 24:44

So you can you can s you know take us some time to look at it. And the Greek one is called Hymn to Liberty or Hymn to Freedom. Yep. Um it's written in some stupid Greek letters that I don't understand. So we're gonna send this to you in English, Bridget. Why, thank you.

SPEAKER_03 25:00

Um you should know the Gallagher family, which is uh me and Shannon here, our maiden names, uh not strong singers.

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We want gusto. If you want a shot before you do this, we can do this.

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Oh boy.

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But I'm really excited.

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Um these only are sort of English words. I'll let Shannon study here while I uh gusto mine out. Oh, wow. All right, are we ready?

SPEAKER_05 25:24

Take maybe one step back from the microphone while you're okay. So the Greek national anthem uh comes from uh it was adopted in 1865. It recounts the misery of the Greeks under the Ottomans and their hope for freedom. Sure. It's a poem by Dionysus Salamos to honor the struggles of the Greeks for independence, and it's meant to um talk about the execution of Patriarch Gregory V of Constantineopoly and the Christian character of the struggle. All right, Bridget.

SPEAKER_03 26:00

I gotta step back. Should I step back? Okay, are you ready for me?

SPEAKER_05 26:03

Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 26:04

We knew thee of old, oh divinely restored by the lights of thine eyes and the light of thy sword. From the graves of our slain shall thy valor prevail as we greet thee again. Hell, Liberty, hell!

SPEAKER_03 26:22

That's not bad. I I'll give you some points for that one. You guys have always wanted to sing. Really sorry you had to listen to that.

SPEAKER_05 26:28

Uh now the the Irish one, um, this was written by Pat Air Kearney and Patrick Heaney. Um, with the original English lyrics by Kearney and the Irish language translation by Liam O'Rin. Um let's see. Uh it was composed in late 19 early 1910 or late 1909. Um the the the actual text of it was sold at auction for 760,000 euro. Ah, oh sure. Um it was used as a marching song by the Irish Volunteers and Seamus Hughes first sang it during the Easter Rising of 1916. Oh, yeah. Uh, and it was officially officially uh recognized at a concert in 194 1924. So this one uh predates the Greeks.

SPEAKER_01 27:13

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_05 27:14

So um sure. So yeah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 27:17

Okay, go for it.

unknown 27:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:19

Soldiers are we whose lives are pledged to Ireland, Ireland, Ireland. Some have come from a land beyond the wave, sworn to be free. No more our ancient sireland, sireland shall shelter the despot or the slave. Tonight we man a bearna bajo in air in scars come woe or wheel, mid-cannons roar and rifles peel. We'll chant a soldier song. That was nice.

SPEAKER_05 27:55

That was that was well done. I like beer no bill. I am gonna have to give this one to Greece.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

I know.

SPEAKER_05 28:03

I don't think that's your fault. I think the lyrics were stronger for Greece. Ended a little bit higher. Oh my goodness. On account of five to four, Greece is our champions. I would like to point out that Greece changed teams, changed nationalities, stretched the limits of nationalities for the team of champions, and cheated on the event. So all of those things grant order. There's an asterisk here, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

But we have medal.

SPEAKER_03 28:31

We have medals. Well, I do like that I have a silver now for my country as well. Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_05 28:38

So our medals, we have gold medals and silver medals. It's a champagne flute full of gold Rollos and silver kisses.

SPEAKER_03 28:47

You guys, if you are playing Olympics at home, this is an awesome idea for Metal Count. You can get the little around your neck medals from the dollar store and then fill mason jars or champagne flutes with gold, silver, and bronze-ish colored candies. It's a really fun idea. Where are my Hello Cat flowers? Oh so sorry, they died.

SPEAKER_05 29:07

Bridget, do you have any words about how proud you are?

SPEAKER_03 29:10

I just want to say that I think it's bullshit that you said I cheated my way to the gold and go grease. And great job, Ireland. Great job. Thank you. Thank you. Such a sport, all fellow competitors. We are a uh sportsman-like country and we're just a happy folk. So we're joyfully happy, gleefully happy with our silver medal. And silver medal, let's get to talk. We are oh this one does.

SPEAKER_01 29:37

But thank you.

SPEAKER_05 29:39

I think at the end of this episode, I'm gonna put the actual music for each of those national. Oh, yeah, I was wondering. So if you guys want to hear the actual anthems, you can do you want to? You can you can listen to that. We're just gonna put the ends. So if you don't want to listen, you don't have to. If you want to compare and contrast.

SPEAKER_03 29:53

Yeah, please do because we practice those. I just realized I had my sunglasses on the whole time. Sorry about that.

SPEAKER_05 29:58

On my head, not my well, you're from Greece, where you have 6,000 islands. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:03

And it's time to party in the Olympic village now. So I'm gonna bring my trophy over here.

SPEAKER_05 30:07

There's gonna be puke where there shouldn't be.

SPEAKER_03 30:09

I'm gonna go find a life-size emu.

SPEAKER_05 30:11

So for my wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 30:14

What a games, you guys. What a games. Looking forward to next year. Oh yeah, next year.

SPEAKER_05 30:19

I'm sorry, yeah. No, it's next year. Oh yeah, it's a winter.

SPEAKER_03 30:22

Yeah, it'll be totally Olympics.

SPEAKER_05 30:24

China. China.

SPEAKER_03 30:25

Really? China? Yeah. All right. All right.

SPEAKER_05 30:28

They're in Beijing, where you know, there's lots of snow and mountains. Yeah, huh. Okay. All right. On that note, it's time for Kid Corner. We got Stories Galore. Excuse me. Are we not singing? Well, I just figured, you know, we can. We already sang enough episodes. We did enough singing this episode, so we can skip it.

SPEAKER_03 30:45

The people have already turned it off.

SPEAKER_05 30:47

Yeah, sorry. Shannon, would you like to go?

SPEAKER_02 30:49

Yeah, and I think, you know, Bridget and I are gonna have similar ones here. But we so my kids are young. They're not quite school aged, but we're in this like August, still summer fun, but also transition to school year mode. And we are sending Max to Montessori Preschool, so I have that on my mind. But he's really into school buses right now, really any vehicles. So we took him to National Night out at Bridget's recommendation. Super. He was real jazzed about the fire trucks until we got there and he couldn't care less. But as we're leaving, he sees a school bus. School bus, school bus, big deal, right? So then he insists on going inside the school bus. And I was there, I had both my kids, a stroller. I'm like, how do I do this? Yeah, you know, and so I get Nolan out, I get Max, we like schlep into the school bus. Max is real excited. This driver is like really sweet and talking to us, and then he panics, like two steps into the bus, turns around and doesn't want to go. And I'm like, all right, all right, this is I know what we need to work on now as we head into a school year. Yeah, so it's funny to see him you know, he's still yeah, I mean it is, he's still a baby, but he's starting to get into like a little more independence, and it's funny to see what I'm gonna have to work on.

SPEAKER_03 31:52

It's gonna be terrified school buses, like we were as children. But he loved it up until yeah, he stood in it.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

So we had to get in it.

SPEAKER_03 31:59

I'm changing mine at the last minute. All right, because you guys don't need to hear about National Night Out twice, which is also what I was gonna talk about. It's a very cool event. But a firefighter angle. I took um the brave move of taking both of my kids on a day trip to Milwaukee, which shouldn't be hard because it's not far away. I know it like the back of my hand. Um, and it was great. We went to uh there was an exhibit whose last which it its last day was last Sunday, so I wanted the kids to see it. It was an outdoor exhibit with giant birds, and it's called Rebirth because they're made terrified. Yeah, it was awesome. There's 22 birds that are all different bright colors, um, and you can climb all over them and treat them like a slide.

SPEAKER_05 32:37

I told Lucy they were slides because Ellie hasn't been sleeping because he's terrified of the giant birds coming to steal him.

SPEAKER_03 32:43

Swally the ground said it was hit his most favorite day ever, which he says like once a week. Yeah. Um but he said it was the best day ever and he wanted to stay there forever. Wow. Um, these birds are made of recycled plastic. It's called rebirth. And then when this exhibit is done, they are melted back down and made into other things. And they go, yeah, so they're super cool. Uh but I managed to take both the kids up there and had to teach a very uh bad lesson to my kid. We're in a it's a state park in Milwaukee. There was one porta potty uh near this bird exhibit, which is essentially for children. I mean, it was for adults as well, but it was very busy, very beautiful day. The porta potty was taped off and was like, oh, sorry, it's full because pumping is tomorrow because there was also a beer festival the day before. Oh I asked the like nice volunteer lady where the bathroom, you know, and I again I know Milwaukee. Oh, it's in Discovery World. I'm like, you have to pay to go into Discovery World. So that was an option. So I made him pee behind a tree. Like there was no option. We we went everywhere we could. We could have walked to the uh far end of the park, so yes, I could have done that, but I didn't. So it took a long time, and then finally I was like, Elliot, this is not okay what we're doing, but like you have to hide all the way back here. And he's like, wait, you know, Elliot's a rule follower. She's like, Well, like right here? No, further back. I'm like, Elliot, back there. You know, so it was really fun, very adorable, fun adventure day. Made my key my kid pee behind me. It would have been a more fun last day part. I mean, I was terrified because there were people everywhere. There's cops on bikes, there's you know, and I'm like, oh my god. But I would have been like, well, fucking get a bathroom. I don't know what to tell you. This is an exhibit for kids. Like, anyway, that's not pleased with the logistics of your free public art show. I get really embarrassed if they pee their pants, and that would have been traumatizing. For you? For him. I'm kidding. I had extra shorts for him just in case. Nobody. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 34:21

Uh Simona loves to get in the car and buckle herself into her car seat. She loves to like climb up and climb across the seat, get in. So she gets very excited. We say, okay, it's time to go in the car. She gets very excited. She runs down, you know, into the car, out the garage, all the things, gets in there. Um, she used to be short enough that she could run underneath the car door and get in instead of having to run around the car door. Not anymore. She's now tall enough that she has just run straight into the car door. And I laugh because it's hilarious. And we've spent like, I don't know, the last two months being like, hey Simona, um, you gotta be careful with that. You're gonna hit your hug. You gotta go around, you know. And you know what? The only thing that teaches? Pain.

SPEAKER_01 35:04

Pain. That's such a dad thing to say.

SPEAKER_05 35:07

So, anyway, she ran into it. It hurt. She was sad. And it was hilarious. We gotta get back to the city. She's not gonna do it. She's not gonna do it ever again, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_01 35:15

I was like, yeah, so that's it.

SPEAKER_05 35:16

So now she's gonna run around it and uh good job, Simmo. Learning life's lessons. I love you, baby girl. So proud of you.

SPEAKER_03 35:23

Do you think she listens to these? Not yet.

SPEAKER_05 35:26

I mean, I have them on in the car sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 35:29

Oh, that's funny. That's funny.

SPEAKER_05 35:30

Because they just come on as you know, like an autoplay thing or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 35:32

I've thought of this with podcasts because NPR specifically talks a lot about were you an NPR kid, like your parents had to head it on in the car, and I'm like, my kids will be. I got Milky Public Radio on.

SPEAKER_05 35:42

Simona's gonna be an Arsbog kid. Yeah. She's gonna know everything about Arsenal.

SPEAKER_03 35:45

I don't make my kids look like that. Blinker will be a normal part of her. You know, I get mad when I like have to drive a distance with my kids because I can't listen to my crime podcast crime podcast. I just don't feel like they need to hear about murder. Not the crime one.

SPEAKER_05 35:58

Bridget, I got some good news for you.

SPEAKER_03 36:00

What's the point?

SPEAKER_05 36:01

Uh no more Sundays without football until February. I know.

SPEAKER_02 36:05

I saw some news.

SPEAKER_05 36:06

It's Bridget's uh fantasy football update coming back.

SPEAKER_03 36:09

I've already thought about a moose boosh and if I need to do it, like, all right, guys, here's my fantasy football draft. And that's usually right around Labor Day is when we do the draft. So I can't, I might need to do it. I'm not sure. I literally was laying in bed thinking about this last night.

SPEAKER_05 36:24

Shannon, dust brings an end to your three-week guest stance. You are like the LeVar Burton of Dinner Post Drinks. Just like it. I'll miss you, friends. And and just slaying. I wonder if we'll ever see you again.

SPEAKER_01 36:36

Thank you. I know, I hope that we don't uh you know stop speaking though.

SPEAKER_05 36:39

Uh I'm sure you'll be back on at some point. Thank you so much. This was wonderful. This is great. Thank you for having me. You did a great job. Yes. Um, Ireland couldn't have asked for a better person other than maybe Kevin Fleming.

SPEAKER_03 36:49

But that's fair. Yeah. We were inspired by Kevin Fleming.

SPEAKER_05 36:52

We wanted, we, we wanted to win one for Kevin.

SPEAKER_03 36:55

We tried, Kevin. We tried. So I'll come celebrate anyway. The other, the Greek folk in town aren't my biggest fans, so let's talk about the Milwaukee Greek folk. Okay, guys, that's uh some local Lake Geneva drama that we're gonna not talk about. Thank you so much for tuning in, as always.

SPEAKER_05 37:15

Greeks cheated too. Shocker.

SPEAKER_03 37:17

That is true, weird. So I actually represented the country pretty accurately. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 37:23

Oh boy. On that note, congratulations, Greeks! Congratulations, Bridget. You won. Sure. Well done, Ireland. Of all the people in the world participating in Dinner Plus Drinks Olympics, getting second place is quite the accomplishment.

SPEAKER_03 37:36

Yeah, I agree. I agree. We're a proud folk.

SPEAKER_05 37:39

You know, in America, we only celebrate the golds, and that's you know, we you we view uh the United States women's national soccer team as failures for getting bronze, but really, should we say that you're bad for only being third out of many?

SPEAKER_03 37:52

Lily King was went on a rant about that because she was expected to get gold and she got a lot of not gold, and but she still was uh silver or bronze, and she was like, why aren't we celebrating? You're an Olympic medalist. Yeah. I feel great about that. Great job. Great job with all my competition. So this was wonderful. This was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_05 38:09

Thanks for doing it. We hope you guys uh listening and watching at home enjoyed as well.

SPEAKER_03 38:12

We will be back to our regularly scheduled dinner plus drinks next week. Uh so thanks for hanging out with us, and we'll be back to talking about food and drink and all the fun things we talk about talk about over dinner plus drinks next week. Cheers, guys.